Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863)
In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific contributor until 1863. Her fictional contributions feature strong female characters and have a darker tone than her previous works, reflecting the fashion for Gothic fiction of the 1860s and her travels in Europe. They include two of her best known shorter works: Lois the Witch, a heartfelt story of a young English girl who becomes of a victim of the Salem witch trials, and The Grey Woman, a powerful tale of a deceived wife's flight from her husband, a nobleman who turns out to be a leader of the French 'chauffeurs'. Two of Gaskell's most complex family sagas were thinly disguised as Christmas Ghost stories: The Ghost in the Garden Room (later, The Crooked Branch) and How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle. The Cage at Cranford is a short reprise of Gaskell's Cranford stories. Of the two documentary pieces, Select Committee on French Songs (attributed to Gaskell in 2015) appears here for the first time in a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's work. (Phil Benson)
Genre(s): Single Author Collections
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Lois the Witch: Part the First | Phil Benson |
00:50:41 |
Play 02 | Lois the Witch: Part the Second | Phil Benson |
01:11:51 |
Play 03 | Lois the Witch: Part the Third 1 | Phil Benson |
00:59:10 |
Play 04 | Lois the Witch: Part the Third 2 | Phil Benson |
00:54:28 |
Play 05 | The Ghost in the Garden Room 1 | Phil Benson |
01:04:53 |
Play 06 | The Ghost in the Garden Room 2 | Phil Benson |
00:54:15 |
Play 07 | The Grey Woman: Portion the First | Phil Benson |
00:43:05 |
Play 08 | The Grey Woman: Portion the Second | Phil Benson |
00:54:24 |
Play 09 | The Grey Woman: Portion the Third | Phil Benson |
00:54:37 |
Play 10 | Select Committee on French Songs: Sitting the First | Phil Benson |
00:42:04 |
Play 11 | Select Committee on French Songs: Sitting the Second | Phil Benson |
00:44:48 |
Play 12 | An Italian Institution | Phil Benson |
00:24:25 |
Play 13 | The Cage at Cranford | Phil Benson |
00:29:37 |
Play 14 | How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle 1 | Phil Benson |
00:56:04 |
Play 15 | How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle 2 | Phil Benson |
00:44:16 |